What operating system are you running?

Wish I could buy HL2, Valve lost a sale.

No network connection on the gaming box nor am I going to add one.

@gdonovan,

Windows 2000 SP4
Athlon 2400
ECS K7S5A Pro
Voodoo 5500 agp
512 mb ram

I fully understand your position, steam sucks and I hate it  but you may want to reconsider as the 20 minutes or so I got to play on my Radeon 9800 pro system before having to go to bed was utterly amazing, although its a bit premature to make a thorough decision, I'm more impressed with this game so far than with Doom 3  .

@omega_supreme,

Just my opinion but the Voodoo era was over when 3dfx sold out to Nvidia and the hardware lost further/ongoing driver development  

@omega_supreme,

8) 

Few questions:

1) What cpu speed.
2) What resolution and game settings.
3) How did you get it working in fullscreen.
4) What/how did you get the screenshot.

As the games stated minimum system requirements are a 1.2 ghz cpu and a directx 7 videocard maybe the driver is limiting the fps  ???

When I get home from work I can experiment more as I only had 10-15 minutes with the game late last night before deciding to get some sleep.

Hi voodoo 5500,

Few questions:

1) What cpu speed.

-1733 mhz (AMD XP 2100+)

2) What resolution and game settings.

-settings are : low and resolution : here it comes...720x480. Like I said dont mind this one, but my monitor is widescreen so I'm happy valve made this feature possible

3) How did you get it working in fullscreen.

- My friend Amigamerlin did. Amigamerlin 3.1R1 is the special recepie for everything

4) What/how did you get the screenshot. 

-  Since its a dx game (in other words uses d3d) you can simply press "printscreen" and past it in any prefered util.
I was lazy and used ms paint.



...And it seems I was wrong again. The game is indeed very good playable on voodoo 5(even addictive). Only the beginning with the G-man is very slow. After that it plays awesome. Im in love with a game again...it took a long time 

You might like this :

This is what you get with HL2 on 1600x1024.
Almost no frame drops, Amazing!

members.chello.nl/g.bruintjes/HL2_1600_small.jpg
http://members.chello.nl/g.bruintjes/HL2_1600.jpg

Maybe ill try the maximum 1920x1280 later 

Heres some FPS, FRAPS doesnt seem to have any trouble with my config :

members.chello.nl/g.bruintjes/HL2_1600_FPS_small.jpg
http://members.chello.nl/g.bruintjes/HL2_1600_FPS.JPG


-Last edit:

1920x1200 seems to be too demanding for the voodoo


http://members.chello.nl/g.bruintjes/1920x1200.JPG

Actually this aint no 6K    I still have that one as a last secret weapon. Im currently on my old 5500 AGP(I found out that a 6K is little risky to use on daily base). Like I told voodoo5500 in my second last post., Im currently using an Athlon XP 2100+. Its running at its default 1733 Hmz
(niet meer vergeten he  )

- sorry have to edit again. Texture size is limited to medium because of the 64 mb that the voodoo has. Maybe that the 6000 can go higher but mine it not in use, so i cannot test for you. When you select high the game crashes to desktop and the next time the game start up its back to medium.

Problems solved, I'm now running the game at 1024 X 768 fullscreen and its absolutely the best looking graphics seen/rendered on my 5500 

I'm also getting really good and playable fps (lows into middle 20's and high's into the 60's)  8)

@omega_supreme,

My 3dfx rig also use's a big Sony Trinitron 21", its superb